-WARNING-
This chapter of The Lone Wolf of the Normandy contains potential flamebait in the form of the author flaming his critics. He’s not very good at it, but manages to bring up most of the Standard Points of Internet Vitriol nonetheless.

*AdmiralSakai strides back through the now clean and well-lit hallways of RIFFCON, dressed once again in cargo pants and a neatly-pressed lab coat and carrying a pad of graph paper.*

All right. I haven’t seen any of those brain-eating zombies since I installed the new spam filter; all the bathrooms and staff areas have been re-stocked with fresh boxes of facial tissue and now that Nightmare Moon has been re-banished they should stay that way; all the copper piping has been reinstalled and I talked to Slenderman’s legal department about having Lizzie reassigned to Hogwarts-In-England where she belongs; and it turns out that I was perfectly able to get rid of Deadsun with just a Level 70 Baptist, a Level 62 New Ager, and a few licensed electricians. So it looks like we’re finally back on track to-

*Sakai turns the corner to the control room and stops dead. Troy Fisher is sitting in front of the viewport with a hollow, dead-eyed expression and an open bottle of Scotch on the desk next to him.*

“It’s… it’s back, sir.”

No.

No no no no no no no no no. Lone Wolf is over. It’s dead, I killed it, we do not have to go through with this nonsense again!

Hello hello all you patrons! And welcome back to what is, finally, the last chapter of The Lone Wolf Of The Normandy. Take it away, Troy.

“Well, pretty much all of the last chapter was spent just trying to get all of the various UNSC forces that have been dumped into Shepard’s universe on the same comm frequency and up to speed on all the bullshit that’s been going on regarding the slavers and the Kilimanjaro and whatever. Oh yeah, and Blaze killed the krogan who I guess was in charge of the whole ground assault or something, it’s kind of hard to tell what the wider course of this engagement is when we have zero idea what sort of forces both sides have, where they are located, or about really anything at all other than whatever enemy happens to be directly in front of one of the Spartans at the moment.”

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“Last time the Normandy finally got to this random ‘jungle planet’ the Kilimanjaro was ditched on, dropped off the various Spartans it had onboard, and then immediately left again.

I really can’t blame them.

Anyway, pretty much the whole rest of the chapter was spent watching Jun, Six, Jorge, and that stupid ‘Blaze’ fucker wandering around killing a bunch of batarians in increasingly stupid ways before the UNSC Spirit Of Fire showed up out of the fucking blue and dropped off a fuck-load of troops to further fuck things up.”

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“Last time we got to sit and watch Jun spit out a massive amount of mostly useless information about the Spartan programs and Noble Team to the Normandy crew, and were informed that back in my own galaxy Carter and the rest of them are all alive and on their way back to Earth because of bullshit-”

Because of that Monitor, actually.

“– because of that bullshit Monitor. Oh, and Six decided he was actually going to not be a complete fucking jackass every waking minute and actually apologized to Shepard for… well, for threatening to murder her and her entire crew, but nothing really came out of it.”

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Last time we got more fucking around by Blaze Shepard and his band of miscellaneous miscreants as they tried to recruit Covenant troops to go on their mission to rescue Blaze’s mom- who in turn has decided to ditch her ship on a conveniently nearby planet for reasons that I’m sure have absolutely nothing to do with the author attempting to crib elements from the ‘Infinity’ campaign mission in Halo 4. We were also introduced to one of the Covenant prisoners, Stealth Minor Lulo ‘Vadamee (yes, as in that ‘Vadamee), who is currently the best character simply by virtue of hating all the OCs and wanting to sword them to death.

-”It’s a bad, bad sign when the squidhead is the most sensible person on the ship.”-

Oh yeah, and Dot confessed to Shepard that she’d been monitoring the Commander’s search history, while Logan did what he did best- whine and brood.

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“Last time fuck-all happened on Mavigon, since Jun was there instead of Six and only the one of them routinely commits war crimes. Jun was kind of an annoying dick to Ashley Williams over lunch, though, and Six is still threatening to kill the whole Normandy crew if they don’t let him do basically whatever he wants.

Oh yeah, and that ‘Blaze’ asshole intercepted a distress call from Shepard’s mom, whose ship got attacked by some stupid number of slavers and is now dead in space. We left off just as he and Jorge were planning to recruit the Covvies who are suddenly now still alive and locked in the corvette’s brig to join the rescue effort, a plan with so many potential points of failure I think even Amy Smythe could figure out not to do it.”

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Last time Six and Co. cleared out the merc base on Xawin, where Six brutally murderated a krogan battlemaster for no real reason and then whined about the fact that an Alliance Navy officer had been somewhat less brutally murderated beforehand. Then back aboard the Normandy he assaulted a few more hapless crewmen and got out of any punishment by waxing whiny about how ‘orrible his life had been up until that point. Oh, and the good news is that Jorge has managed to be brought up to speed and integrated into Citadel Space without causing anybody any grievous bodily harm, but the bad news is the people he’s not causing any grievous bodily harm to are Blaze Shepard and his special snowflake brigade.